The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) recently promulgated regulations to reduce air pollution from heavy-duty vehicles. This article reports the estimated health benefits of reductions in ambient particulate matter (PM) concentrations associated with those regulations based on the best available methods of benefits analysis. The results suggest that when heavy-duty vehicle emission ...
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The valuation of scientific information has been and continues to be assessed in analyses of potential and actual uses. But it has only begun. There are many uses for geospatial information and many methods for valuing geospatial information, which means we, as decision makers and analysts, have considerable flexibility in demonstrating value for others. VOI quantification is useful for: - affirmi...
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• What is the primary purpose for assessing and communicating the socioeconomic benefits of geospatial information? • What types of socio-economic information/metrics should be used? • How can we quantify the impact of value studies? • What techniques work best to communicate the socio-economic benefits to different target audiences?
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Presents a collection of slides covering the following topics: This application would not be possible without MRLI, and VOI cannot be estimated without an application; An estimate of VOI for MRLI and the Landsat Data Continuity Mission is $38.1B ± $8.8B for northeastern Iowa; VOI estimate could be lower with additional constraints, land use policies, and management practices; VOI estimate could be...
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NASA Applied Science Program has and continues to yield significant results for nation and international programs through Science ⇒ Applications transfer; Successes include supporting renewable energy and energy efficient technology optimization and providing data from the individual user to the worldwide scale.; The value of contributions to the renewable energy show wide spread impact, but are d...
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Presents a collection of slides covering the following topics: local government geospatial information; decision making; politics; social well-being of citizens; location economics; and government policies.
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Is it just me or is it a bit hot? Is it just me or is my garden growing funny? Are my allergies getting worse? Is it just me or is life on fast forward this year? Who here has had questions like that recently? Raise your hands. Normally I ask these questions to rooms full of non scientists. You all feel comfortable answering your own questions, having these discussions with each other. Maybe you p...
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• Measures of Participation should be qualified w/questionnaires, knowledge discovery, and group interaction coding systems • Software Add-Ons/Extensions to make software more User Friendly
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